• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I never said he could act unilaterally. I do think he could have done more, and didn’t.

    how much of this list is more to do with Harris, and people in the relevant agencies pushing for it. People like Becerra leading the HHS. I don’t know… I suspect a lot of it is actually from Harris’ contributions.

    I suspect that if he legitimately wanted to codify RvW, he would have gotten the filibuster suspended (he waffled on that, being apposed leading into it then switching,). There’s enough popular support to have done that, with exactly 2 senators holding out- Manchin and Sinema. they’re horse traders. and so is Biden.

    Or he could have supported packing the courts. (here we see his lackluster leadership.); never seeing RvW get overturned in the first place. McConnell has already shown he’d pack the courts if could get away with it. He already has.

    How much of that list, also, is going to go away the first moment a republican president gets into office? Some of it is already going to the courts (hence the bits about the DoJ defending it,). we need more than stop-gap executive orders and policies that can be reversed. And even then, you’ll notice that with the VA, they’re only providing abortion care for medical needs, or if it’s the result of rape and incest. the bare minimum.

    I don’t think he’s done enough. And I don’t think, if we give him another four years, he’s capable of doing enough. So yeah. call me Anti-Biden. That’s a badge I’ll wear happily. I don’t support people who support genocide, and that’s just one other issue. There’s also how he’s dove far-enough-right on immigration and border security, the GOP is trying to find new ways of being assholes.

    • Hominine@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      You suspect Biden can do things that are politically untenable I suspect you support Trump and are just slinging shit against the wall. Perhaps we’re both wrong.